Dear Anurag,

We’ll certainly check this out and let you know.

Thanks.

Paul Wilson
APNIC




On 31 May 2018, at 14:18, Anurag Bhatia wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I am trying to understand a case scenario where a Pakistan based ISP
> (Multinet Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.) AS9260 is being allocated and
> originating certain addresses which are officially delegated to Indian
> operator (though whois record reflects Pakistan).
>
>
> Example pool which shows this behaviour:
>
> 202.141.224.0/19 (visible in routing table, originated by AS9260)
> Here, whois query to APNIC DB reflects:
>
> % [whois.apnic.net]
> % Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
>
> % Information related to '202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255'
>
> % Abuse contact for '202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255' is '
> [email protected]'
>
> inetnum:        202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255
> netname:        MULTINETPAKISTAN
> descr:          Multinet Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.
> country:        PK
> org:            ORG-MB4-AP
> admin-c:        AAA3-AP
> tech-c:         IC219-AP
> mnt-by:         APNIC-HM
> mnt-routes:     MAINT-PK-MULTINETPAKISTAN
> mnt-lower:      MAINT-PK-MULTINETPAKISTAN
> mnt-irt:        IRT-MULTINETBROADBAND-PK
> status:         ALLOCATED PORTABLE
> last-modified:  2017-11-13T13:01:16Z
> source:         APNIC
>
>
>
> Seems like a regular allocation to this network. But if we look at the
> APNIC's delegation data (
> https://ftp.apnic.net/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-extended-latest), it
> shows:
>
> grep "202.141.224.0" delegated-apnic-extended-latest
> apnic|IN|ipv4|202.141.224.0|8192|20020419|allocated|A91733A8
>
>
>
> Here the allocated country is India. Is this is a case of IP address
> transfer? Or a case where APNIC might have allocated it to an Indian
> network back in 2002 and later pool was returned and allocated to this
> network in Pakistan? Many tools which try to map prefixes to the country
> based on the RIR data will map/assume this prefix to be belonging to India
> which certainly not seem to be the case here.
>
> Anyone with insight on this?
>
> -- 
>
>
> Anurag Bhatia
> anuragbhatia.com


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